Setperms Problems

[Bob Stockler]

Tim Fischer wrote (on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:49:07PM -0400):

| Ok - I think I figured out what was going on the other day (though it 
| wouldn't explain the processing issues, but we'll tackle that some other 
| time).  We had some big problems this morning with files being locked.  
| I'm still not too sure *what* was causing the locks, but those file 
| locks froze dxmaint, setperms, *clerk, etc.  I'm chalking the setperms 
| issue of last week to the file locking issue as well.
| 
| If this didn't make sense to anyone and they're curious, just email me - 
| I'll try to explain it better.
| 
| Bob, thanks for the suggestions you had.  The -xv came in very useful to 
| figure out which file was locked. 

You're welcome, but I don't think filePro lockfiles could have
any affect on how setperms works.  It's a shell script, and the
shell has no notion of filePro lockfiles, other that they are
regular files.

Bob

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